1 Then scribes and Pharisees, who were from Jerusalem, came to Jesus, saying,
2 "Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat food."
3 But He answered, saying to them, "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and mother: and, He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'
5 But you say that whoever shall say to his father or his mother, 'It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me.'
6 and doesn't honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you nullify the Command of God by your tradition.
7 You hypocrites!  Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying,
8 'These people draw near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their innermost minds are far from Me.
9 But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.'"
10 And He called the crowd and said to them, "Hear, and understand:
11 It's not that which goes into the mouth that contaminates a person, but that which comes out of the mouth; this contaminates a person."
12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, "Did You know that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this utterance?"
13 But He answered and said, "Every plant that My Heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.
14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind.  And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
15 Then Peter answered and said to Him, "Explain this parable to us."
16 And Jesus said, "Are you also yet without understanding?
17 Don't you yet understand, that whatever enters into the mouth goes into the belly, and is expelled into the sewer?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the innermost mind, and they contaminate the man.
19 For out of the innermost mind proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things that contaminate a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not contaminate a person." *
21 Then Jesus went on from there and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And a woman of Canaan came out of the same region and cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, Master, You Son of David; my daughter is miserably under the power of a devil."
23 But He didn't answer her with any utterance.  And his disciples came and begged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."
24 But He answered and said, "I am not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
25 Then she came and fell on her knees before Him, saying, "Lord, help me."
26 But He answered and said, "It is not praiseworthy to take the children's bread and to cast it to dogs."
27 And she said, "That's true, Lord, yet the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
28 Then Jesus answered, saying to her, "Oh woman, great is your supernatural belief and trust.  It shall be done to you as you desire."  And her daughter was made well from that very time.
29 And Jesus left that place and went close to the Sea of Galilee and went up into a mountain and sat down there.
30 And great crowds came to Him, having with them those who were lame, blind, unable to speak, crippled, and many others, and pushed them near Jesus' feet, and He healed them,
31 so that the crowd was amazed when they saw those who formerly couldn't speak talking, the crippled strong, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they glorified the God of Israel.
32 Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "I have compassion on the multitude because they continue with Me now three days and have nothing to eat, and I don't want to send them away without eating, or they might faint on the way."
33 And His disciples said to Him, "Where would we get this much food in this deserted place to feed such a great a crowd?"
34 And Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" And they said, "Seven and a few little fish."
35 And He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground.
36 And He took the seven loaves and the fish and, giving thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples.  And the disciples gave them to the multitude.
37 And they all ate and were filled, and they picked up seven baskets full of the broken food that was left.
38 And those who ate were four thousand men without counting the women and children.
39 And He sent away the crowd and took ship and came into the coasts of Magdala.